From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] no frame buffer
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B45AC2A-B400-41F7-B8A8-601E4017C452@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100523214139.GA25735@chiron.galaxy>
Is it possible to limit the frame rate aux/vga sets? The reason I'm
asking is:
On 23 May 2010, at 22:41, frank@inua.be wrote:
>
> Whatever I use for monitor (vesa, vga) or vgasize, the
> screen just turns black and the led of the monitor is blinking.
I've had quite a lot of CRT monitors in the past. Many of them were
detected as being more capable than they really were, so X would set
the frame rate too high. A black screen with blinking led was a common
symptom of that.
--
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-23 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-22 22:55 frank
2010-05-23 0:01 ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-23 10:08 ` frank
2010-05-23 11:26 ` Richard Miller
2010-05-23 13:55 ` frank
2010-05-23 21:41 ` frank
2010-05-23 23:00 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2010-05-24 19:45 ` frank
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